Shingle-bundle wire-binding device



July 22, 1930. v. H. Ross 1,771,317

SHING'LE BUNDLE WIRE BINDING DEVI [CE Filed Dec. 27, 11926 jnz aiziolr a? 1. 01 AZZbr/zey l atented July 22, 1936 UNITED STATES T NT- F FIC VAUGHN H. ROSS, OF VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA SHINGLE-BUNDLE WIRE-BINDING DEVICE Application filed l leceinber 27, 1926. Serial no. 157,133,

This invention relatesv to an improved method of securing together shingles in bundles for shipment. Its object is to expedite ing both in time or labour over methods now usually in vogue.

In carrying out my invention I prefer to utilize the wire tying machine as described in my patent application filed November 23, 1926, under Serial'No. 150,345, which lends itself with great facility to the operation detailed hereinafter.

In my invention I avoid using the flat metal band and the nailing of this to one of the wood strips which act as cleats to the bundle, as is the usual practice, andinstead place the bundled shingles in position for wire-tying by my machine (above referred to) and having first prepared the wood strips or cleats by securing both ends from splitting by driving a fine wire nail transversely through them, at right angles to the direction of the binding wire and close to each end, I pass around the bundle and over the cleats longitudinally a length of wire and thread the same through my machine, which tightens the wire to any required degree and ties the ends, leaving'the .bundle tightly bound, with the wire having cut into the ends of the cleats, thus locking itself against any possible transverse move ment such as may occur in transportation,

It isthis locking of the wire within the cleft produced by the tensional strain on the round wire (setup by my machine) and limited inamount' by the resistance of the transverse nail, which is a salient feature of my invention, the details of which are fully described in the specification following, reference being made to the accompanying drawings which form tion and in which: i

Fig. l is a perspective view showing the application of'my device to a bundle of shinpart of this applicagles.

. Fig. 2, an enlarged section of one end of the cleat.

The usual standard bundle of shingles is indicated by 5, the two wood strips or cleats by 6, the round Wire by 7 It is to benoted that when the ends of the binding wire are drawn together under strain preparatory to making the tie by twisting the ends together at 8, the tension causes the wire to cut into the corners of the cleats as shown at 9 and more clearly by the enlarged section of the cleat end shown in Fig. 2. I

This incipient vcleavage of the cleats is however intercepted by the transverse wire nail 10 which serves the double purpose of securing the grain of the wood against the splitting action and also of offering a resistance 'to' any excessive cleavage which would otherwise occur.

Having now particularly described my invention, what I claim and desire the protection of Letters Patent is 1. A device for binding together a bun-V dle of shingles and comprising a pair of Iongitudinal rectangular cross-sectioned wood cleats, said cleats being disposed across the centre and on oppositeside of said bundle, a loop of round wire encircling said bundle and said cleats, said wire being on the approximate longitudinal centre'line of said cleats and having its ends secured together under tensional strain, a short wlre piercmg said cleat'near each outer corner, sa1d short wire being transverse of said cleats and of said longitudinal wire, and adapted to form a bearing for saidwire.

2. A device for binding together a bundle of shingles and comprising, two longitudinal wood cleats of rectangular cross section, said cleats being opposite each other and on 0pposite surfaces of the said bundle disposed transversely at about mid-position, each said cleat having a wire nail driven through it transversely near each outer corner and adapted to form a bearing for a tie wire loop, a loop of round wire encircling said bundle and said cleats and disposed lengthwise of said-cleats, the ends of said wire being twisted together under tensional strain.

In witness whereof I afiix my signature.

VAUGHN H.'ROSS. 

